Lucky Red and Lovely Pink

February 14, 2010Angela (Oh She Glows)

by Angela (Oh She Glows) on February 14, 2010

Happy Chinese New Year!

One of my best girlfriends is Chinese so I always make sure to send her some special love at the start of the Chinese New Year! Did you know this year is the year of the Tiger? RAWR. Lots of ups and downs predicted.

Also…

Happy Valentine’s Day!

This is our 10th Valentine’s Day together. Times goes by so fast!

As I mentioned, I am banned from the kitchen today. :mrgreen:

I woke up and had a nice and easy 5 mile run on the treadmill at a 10 minute mile pace, incline 2%. My legs felt like LEAD after doing the Booty Camp FitnessAdvanced Level yesterday so I just kept my pace steady today with no challenging miles. It was basically a maintenance run as I like to call them!

While I was running, Eric was busy in the kitchen doing mysterious things. After showering, I came into the kitchen (ravenous) and was surprised with some beautiful flowers and breakfast.

I am wearing the first piece of jewelry he ever gave me 10 years ago- a blue stone necklace:

A fresh juice made for us with carrots, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and a cucumber:

I spread mine with some Artisana Coconut Butter that I was sent to review. This was my first time trying coconut butter and I loved it. Imagine what coconut butter would taste like and it is about 10 times better! It is 100% Organic, Raw Coconut Meat (dehydrated at low temperature). I also had cashew butter on my waffle too.

This was amazing!!!!!! Eric was so nervous that it wasn’t going to taste good, but it tasted like a gourmet waffle. He did great :)

It was so cute, when I went into the kitchen he had waffle batter all over his foot and pant leg- apparently he dropped the whisk all over himself! lol.

I spend my life in the kitchen baking, cleaning, and doing mounds of dishes everyday so this was a really nice treat. :) I don’t want the day to end!

Coming up today:

I need to finish Eric’s homemade v-day card (I always make him cards when I can)

I have a couple hours of paperwork to get done (FDA Prior notices for shipments)

Olympic watching (we’ve been watching them non-stop- love it!!)

Eric has a second surprise for me late afternoon

I am taking him out for a surprise tonight

Tomorrow is a holiday for us- ‘Family Day’…I am excited because we will likely be out late tonight.

PS- I washed the floors using vinegar and water that some of you suggested and it was wonderful! Thanks so much for the tip. I will likely do the Murphy’s Oil once every 1-2 months still because the oil is supposed to be very moisturizing for the wood. However, I think using it once a week was way too much and that’s why I had so much build up occurring!

I still washed it on my hands and knees and hand dried it as I went. I used about 1/8 cup vinegar and 4 cups warm water and a damp cloth.

It looks like you guys go all out for Valentine’s Day! And here I am watching a horror movie with my puppies while my husband is at hockey … at least I have a romantic fire blazing!

Those waffles look delicious! I bought some coconut oil, but haven’t used it yet … it’s hard and I think I’m supposed to heat it up and just let it harden again? I should have got some of that Artisana stuff the other day!

What a lovely breakfast treat! I loveee that Cashew butter too – my mom got some in her retirement gift basket and I have some with crackers every time I visit her. That coconut butter looks to die for too!

You guys are adorable. I hope the rest of your V-day was great. Now I feel like I should go look up what the Year of the Tiger ought to bring.. I know I was born in the Year of the Dragon. Talk about RAWR haha.

I came looking for an oil free waffle recipe and found this. I may try that. I’m also trying Hash Brown Waffles this morning – Christmas morning btw – and the recipe is from the book ‘Forks Over Knives: Flavor!’ First time trying a recipe from that book.

On the hardwood floors. I recently burned a pan of beans on the stove and had so much smoke in the whole downstairs, that nothing was helping to get rid of the smell of burnt beans. Finally we resorted to washing down all the walls and floors with straight vinegar. I had 100% white vinegar in a spray bottle and just sprayed, wiped and dried as I went on hands and knees. It did the trick. I was so thankful! Of course, we also had to wash everything in the rooms, from pillow cushions off the couch to every single thing sitting out on the countertops in the kitchen, to bringing the area rug out to the lawn to sit in the sun for the afternoon. I was surprised, that it took full strength to do the trick and that everything I applied that to, had no issue from it. I first had tried a mix of water and vinegar, but it didn’t work. My hardwood floors looked fine after doing this.